MySQL Select First Day of Year and Month

Question

How to find first day of year in SELECT?

SELECT `DATE`,`SomeValue1`,`SomeValue2`
FROM `SomeTableName`
WHERE (`DATE` >= [...first day of the year in date f         


        

Answer 1

If the above works for the month, then this will work for the year:

WHERE (`DATE` between  DATE_FORMAT(NOW() ,'%Y-01-01') AND NOW() )